[Flac-dev] Error seeking with --skip

[Josh Coalson]

thanks for the good words... it looks like you
have found a real bug.  is there a way for you
to make the input wav and flac file available
for download somehow?  otherwise I will try and
reproduce it with another file.

Josh

--- Michael Moore <michael_moore at csnw.com> wrote:
> I am encoding files with "-8 -r 99" (e.g. flac -8 -r
> 99 1.wav 1.3.flac)
> using version 0.6
> under Linux.
> 
> On one of my flac files, however, I was not able to
> seek exactly 2 minutes
> into the file due
> to the following error:
> 
> $ flac --skip 5280000 -d 1.3.flac 1.1.wav
> ...
> 1.3.flac: ERROR seeking while skipping bytes
> 
> With a little experimentation, I was able to
> determine that I cannot seek
> to samples
> 5278573  - 5280363.  Seeking to samples before and
> after that yield proper
> results
> and if I seek to before that range, the output
> contains correct
> decompressed audio for the
> range to which I cannot seek.
> 
> Obviously, the error only presents a problem when
> seeking to this .04
> second and I could
> write my script to recognize this error and advance
> by a few samples if it
> gets this error,
> but I thought it was worth a query.
> 
> I tried recompressing the file and got the same
> resulting flac file and
> the same seeking
> error for this range.
> 
> Am I missing something about my arguments to flac? 
> Is there something
> curious about
> this flac file? Is there a way to get some
> information about this tiny
> part of this 30mb
> flac file?


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